8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

General John Allen, the guy who replaced Petraeus as the commander of American and Allied troops in Afghanistan has apparently been sending emails to the woman who indirectly blew the whistle on Petraeus and his mistress (which is what New Chief was referring to, I presume). According to reports, he's sent 20,000 to 30,000 pages worth of emails and other documents to this Jill Kelley gal. That's a lot of correspondence. John Hinderaker of Powerline puts it in perspective:

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The story I want to return to is the one involving another general, John Allen, who succeeded Petraeus as the commander of American and allied troops in Afghanistan. As a form of collateral damage, apparently, the FBI has found that General Allen, like the FBI agent, is obsessed with Jill Kelley. She must be quite a woman! Allen reportedly exchanged “20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails and other documents” with Mrs. Kelley. Ponder that for a moment: 20,000 to 30,000 pages? In Search of Lost Time is only 3,200 pages long. If you assume a standard 250 words to a page, you can fit the complete works of William Shakespeare into around 3,540 pages. The Bible can be printed, in most editions, in under 1,500 pages. So what on earth were General Allen and Mrs. Kelley writing so as to fill up 20,000 to 30,000 pages? Poetry? Love notes? The longest military treatise ever? Assume it took General Allen a mere five minutes to either read or write one page–no doubt a low estimate, when it comes to writing–and use the mid-point of 25,000 pages. That would mean that Allen devoted 125,000 minutes to his correspondence with Mrs. Kelley, or 2,083 hours–in other words, a full work year (40 hours times 52 weeks). No wonder we aren’t winning in Afghanistan!

I used to think the armed forces were an oasis of sanity in an otherwise-crazy world, but that view obviously needs to be reconsidered.

Holy cow!

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"I'll see you guys in New York." ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to US military personnel upon his release from US custody at Camp Bucca in Iraq during Obama's first year in office.

General John Allen, the guy who replaced Petraeus as the commander of American and Allied troops in Afghanistan has apparently been sending emails to the woman who indirectly blew the whistle on Petraeus and his mistress (which is what New Chief was referring to, I presume). According to reports, he's sent 20,000 to 30,000 pages worth of emails and other documents to this Jill Kelley gal. That's a lot of correspondence. John Hinderaker of Powerline puts it in perspective:

Holy cow!

Maybe they were going over Obamacare page by page.

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Originally Posted by petegz28

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General John Allen, the guy who replaced Petraeus as the commander of American and Allied troops in Afghanistan has apparently been sending emails to the woman who indirectly blew the whistle on Petraeus and his mistress (which is what New Chief was referring to, I presume). According to reports, he's sent 20,000 to 30,000 pages worth of emails and other documents to this Jill Kelley gal. That's a lot of correspondence. John Hinderaker of Powerline puts it in perspective:

Holy cow!

Lew commented that Rush made a valid point on this:

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Limbaugh Actually Makes a Valid Point
In discussing one general's perhaps 30,000 love letters, Rush said: "Didn't he do any work?" The answer is no. No bureaucrat, in a government suit or not, does much work at all. That's one of the benefits of living off the taxpayers by force.